F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Raised to “Buy” at Wall Street Zen

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) was upgraded by Wall Street Zen from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report issued on Saturday.

A number of other brokerages have also commented on FFIV. Evercore raised F5 from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $475.00 price objective for the company in a report on Monday, May 18th. Bank of America raised their target price on F5 from $250.00 to $300.00 and gave the company an “underperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 26th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of F5 in a research report on Friday, June 26th. Royal Bank Of Canada reiterated an “outperform” rating on shares of F5 in a report on Thursday, July 16th. Finally, Zacks Research lowered F5 from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, July 27th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, F5 currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $416.62.

F5 Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ FFIV opened at $402.57 on Friday. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $401.57 and a 200-day moving average price of $334.36. The stock has a market capitalization of $22.71 billion, a P/E ratio of 32.05, a P/E/G ratio of 3.97 and a beta of 1.03. F5 has a 1 year low of $223.76 and a 1 year high of $435.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last posted its earnings results on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $4.00 by $0.73. F5 had a net margin of 21.95% and a return on equity of 21.54%. The company had revenue of $865.08 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $834.60 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $4.16 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 10.9% compared to the same quarter last year. F5 has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 4.140-4.260 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 17.210-17.330 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that F5 will post 13.53 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Transactions at F5

In other F5 news, CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 3,783 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $337.39, for a total value of $1,276,346.37. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 146,989 shares in the company, valued at approximately $49,592,618.71. This trade represents a 2.51% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CFO Edward Cooper Werner sold 2,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $400.00, for a total value of $1,000,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 406 shares in the company, valued at $162,400. The trade was a 86.03% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. In the last 90 days, insiders have sold 16,311 shares of company stock worth $5,810,885. Company insiders own 0.48% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Hazlett Burt & Watson Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of F5 during the 4th quarter valued at $26,000. Hantz Financial Services Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of F5 by 109.8% in the 4th quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc. now owns 107 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $27,000 after buying an additional 56 shares during the last quarter. Elyxium Wealth LLC purchased a new position in shares of F5 in the 4th quarter worth about $28,000. SJS Investment Consulting Inc. grew its position in F5 by 963.6% during the first quarter. SJS Investment Consulting Inc. now owns 117 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $34,000 after buying an additional 106 shares during the period. Finally, Capital Advisors Ltd. LLC grew its position in F5 by 113.8% during the first quarter. Capital Advisors Ltd. LLC now owns 124 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $36,000 after buying an additional 66 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

F5 Company Profile

F5 Inc (NASDAQ:FFIV) specializes in application services and delivery networking, helping organizations ensure the availability, performance and security of their applications. The company’s core offerings include advanced load balancing, traffic management and application security solutions designed to optimize user experiences and protect against threats such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and web application exploits.

At the heart of F5’s product portfolio is the BIG-IP platform, which provides a suite of software modules for local and global traffic management, secure web application firewalling and DNS service delivery.